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Copyright © 2010 American Chemical Society
March 1, 2010 Cover
Volume 88, Issue 9
COVER: A L'Oreal scientist loads strand of hair with 20-g weights to test whether a product prevents hair breakage
Volume 88, Issue 9
SCIENCE FOR BEAUTY
In pursuit of innovative products, L’Oréal’s R&D scientists address beauty ‘from the cell to the gesture’
COVER: A L'Oreal scientist loads strand of hair with 20-g weights to test whether a product prevents hair breakage
Credit: Matteo L'Oreal Recherche
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March 1, 2010 Issue
Volume 88, Issue 9
March 1, 2010 Issue, Vol. 88 | Iss. 9
In pursuit of innovative products, L’Oréal’s R&D scientists address beauty ‘from the cell to the gesture’
(pp. 17-22)
Features
Education
Up again by 1% from the previous year, women’s progress is steady but glacial (pp. 42-43)
Cover Story: Inside The Beauty Lab
Treading Lighter
L'Oréal is increasing its commitment to sustainability when developing new ingredients
Web ExclusiveNews of the Week
European Firms Look To Future
Earnings: Fourth quarter makes chemical companies hopeful about 2010
(p.11)A Protein That Aids Forgetting
Neuroscience: Small G-protein Rac helps the fruit fly brain remove memories
(p.12)NIH And FDA Team Up
Collaboration: Agencies partner
to help regulators bring new drugs to market faster
(p.12)Industry Sustainability Study
BASF, Air Liquide lead in creating sustainable value; Dow is last, BASF-funded study finds
(p.13)New Way To Screen α-conotoxins
Drug Discovery: Work could lead to medications based on these neuroactive peptides
(p.13)Drug Firms Create Cancer Nonprofit
Research: Lilly, Merck, and Pfizer target disease in Asia
(p.14)EPA Delays CO2 Cuts
Greenhouse Gas: Agency postpones limits to plant emissions until 2011 or later
(p.14)Growing Piles Of Toxic Trash
Electronic Waste: Developing countries need to prepare for surge in domestic discards, UNEP says
(p.15)Heavy Elements
International body dubs element 112 Copernicium
(p.15)Departments
Business
The world's largest drug company enters a new round of postmerger consolidation
(p.29)
Smart acquisitions and a knack for retaining foreign employees propel growth of drug ingredients producer
(pp. 26-28)Concentrates
(pp. 24-25)
(pp. 24-25)- SNPE Sells Isochem Unit To Private Equity Firm
- Millipore Is Exploring Its Strategic Options
- Air Products, Airgas Trade Barbs Over Bid
- Bayer And Japanese Firms Pursue Auto Glazing
- Invista To Shrink Terephthalate Output
- Braskem And Pemex Sign Agreement
- Bayer’s Ehrfeld To Sell Lonza Microreactors
- Chemtura Will Expand Antioxidants
- Basilea Licenses A Drug After Setback
- Cephalon Opts To Buy Ception
- Genentech, Sanofi Ink Academic Pacts
- GSK Is Again Defending Avandia
- Genzyme Braces For Icahn Bid
- Business Roundup
ACS News
Final Program: San Francisco, March 21–25
(p.55)Awards(p.49)
(p.49)- Fred Hawthorne Wins Madison Marshall Award
- AIChE Honors Innovators In Chemical Engineering
- Herty Medal To Ken Wagener
- Kim Orth Is Hackerman Awardee
- Akron Section Recognizes Dehua Pei
- JoAnne Stubbe Wins Prelog Medal
- Paul Cremer Honored With O’Donnell Award
- Wiley Prize Goes To Ernst Bamberg
- Sarbajit Banerjee Receives Solid-State Fellowship
- Nominations Sought For Shirley Radding Award
- Nominations For Geochemistry Division Medal
Government & Policy
Agency wants to incorporate human epidemiology and incident data into risk assessments
(pp. 31-33)
Investigation: FBI concludes that government biodefense researcher Bruce Ivins was the culprit in the attacks
(p.30)Books
Explanations for lay readers of the science behind the stuff of everyday life
(pp. 46-47)Education
Up again by 1% from the previous year, women’s progress is steady but glacial
(pp. 42-43)
Science & Technology
L'Oréal is increasing its commitment to sustainability when developing new ingredients
Web Exclusive
In pursuit of innovative products, L’Oréal’s R&D scientists address beauty ‘from the cell to the gesture’
(pp. 17-22)
Organic Synthesis: Bifunctional reagent adds to the tool kit for making macrocycles
(p.34)
Biogeochemistry: Symbiotic bacteria split redox reactions over long distances
(p.35)
New evidence proves that RNAs can take on multiple folded forms, just as proteins do
(pp. 36-37)
Unusual peptides with pharmacological potential are amenable to engineering
(pp. 38-39)
Discovery suggests organic ferroelectrics may not be as elusive as once thought
(p.41)Newscripts
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